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LA FAYETTE HARTSON.

HARNESS BUCKLE AND LOOP. I No. 281,870. Patented July 24, 1883.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

LA. FAYETTE HARTSON, OF WYOMING, IOWA.

KiiN Ess eueKLE AND LOOP.-

SPECIFIOAT I ON forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,870, dated July 24, 1883.

Application filed April 19, 1883. (No model.) i

To all whim it may concern:

Be it known that I, LA FAYETTE Hnurson, of Wyoming, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Harness Buckle and Loop,'=of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin all-the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my new and improved buckle and loop as they appear when attached to a strap and billet. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the billet being broken away. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation taken on the line as w of Fig. Figs. 4 and5 are respectively perspectivdviews of the buckle and loop.

This invention relates to an improvement in harness-buckles; and it consists of the combination and arrangement of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

to'the end of the strap 0. The loop is'cast with the end plates, h h, side flanges it, and central cross-piece, j, as shown clearly in Fig.

5. The plates 71. h have the orifices 70 la formed through them, through which rivets pass for of great advantage,since it effects a great saving in the cost of manufaeture.- The edges of the side plates 1; t of the loop B are slanted from the e'entral cross-piece, j, on both sides thereof, down. to the plates hh, as shown clearly in Fig. 5, so that they serve'to guard the cross-piece j and prevent the loop from being caught and tornoff from the harness 01 injured in case the harness is rubbed by the animal against a wall or other obj eet. The orifices k is in the loop are made to correspond with the orifices f f in the tang-plate b of the buckle A, so that both the buckle and loop may be secured to the strap 0 by the same rivets, aswill be understood from Figsl and 2, which effects a saving in the labor and expense of attaching the buckle and loop.

Although the buckle and loop may be used in a great variety of places, they are more especially intended for use upon the ends 01 lines, and in similar places where billets are used in connection with the main strap, and when so used the billet D will be held-between and by the buckle and loop,-as shown in Fig. 1, the billet D and main strap 0 being secured together, and the buckle and loop secured to them by the rivets f, thus avoiding the labor of stitching the buckle-loop and billet to the main strap, as is the usual practice, and also avoiding all danger of these parts ripping off. Besides, by this construction the attachment is very simple and neat, yet strong and durable, and the buckle and loop are in expensive, since cores are not required in casting them.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The buckle having the tang-plate 6, provided with orifices f f,in combination with the metallic loop B, with its plates h h, provided with orifices 70 7c, and the straps C D, with their meeting or lapping portions'insorted or interposed between and riveted to the plate I) of the buckle and the plates h h 01 the loop, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LA FAYETTE HARTSON.

Witnesses:

JAMus W. MILNER, A. B. HosKINs. 

